suggestion – Glow Blog Helphttps://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp
Help for Glow BlogsThu, 23 May 2019 12:22:14 +0000en-UShourly1https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/files/2016/01/lifebelt1-56aa06e0v1_site_icon-32x32.pngsuggestion – Glow Blog Helphttps://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp
3232Blogposts/categories to ePub for end of year or topic sharing and consumptionhttps://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/portfolio/blogpostscategories-to-epub-for-end-of-year-or-topic-sharing-and-consumption/
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/portfolio/blogpostscategories-to-epub-for-end-of-year-or-topic-sharing-and-consumption/#respondMon, 27 Nov 2017 18:14:14 +0000https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&p=2607Continue reading Blogposts/categories to ePub for end of year or topic sharing and consumption→]]>Idea: This would further enhance the idea of collegiate digital sharing in education. It would allow users to pull together the individual takes on GTCS SPR or whatever topic there was from across a host of blogs. In my case this could be either shared each year or added to in a year on year out basis. It could a,so be used in schools if learners were all sharing to a category on a shared site.

I have been looking at the work that I do with my students and how we can enhance the experience. They right a lot each year on their WordPress ePorfolios about the GTCS Professional Standards and also about topics such as Maths and Science electives. It would be excellent to be able to pull these altogether to share as a one source ePub for wider sharing.

]]>https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/portfolio/blogpostscategories-to-epub-for-end-of-year-or-topic-sharing-and-consumption/feed/0Blog Analyticshttps://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/portfolio/blog-analytics/
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/portfolio/blog-analytics/#respondMon, 27 Nov 2017 18:12:00 +0000https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&p=2606Continue reading Blog Analytics→]]>Idea: It would be useful to have a counter tool that can identify how many visitors you’ve had to your blog.

Better would be if data, such as geographical location or glow usernames could be analysed.

It could be useful to know who has downloaded any resources from your own blog. This could allow dialogue between professionals about how to better the resource.

Benefits of this idea. Why?: This could benefit teachers as they could see who has been using the blog as a revision tool.

This data could be used to further measure results in terms of how digital learning has impacted on candidates’ results.

It could also allow conclusions to be drawn about Closing the Attainment Gap (access to technology & internet.)

Notes:

There is currently a plugin ‘Glow Analytics’ which give a view of the data available through Google Analytics.

Explains some of the limitations of the Google Analytics API we are using to provide Analytics.

It may be we can get more information about visitors and we will certainly look into this.

As a workaround you could activate the ‘WP-PostRatings’ plugin on your site and add a rating to your posts. Ask the pupils to give a tick or thumbs up if they use a page.

]]>https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/portfolio/blog-analytics/feed/0Support for Tablet Appshttps://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/portfolio/support-for-tablet-apps/
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/portfolio/support-for-tablet-apps/#respondTue, 21 Nov 2017 17:21:18 +0000https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&p=2599Continue reading Support for Tablet Apps→]]>Idea: Enable support for WordPress supported apps – especially easy to use ones like ClassDroid to enable all children to blog simply and easily through tablet devices. Time and ease of use are a big barrier to use.

Benefits: Children even at Early Level will be able to blog and post their ideas and see their impact online. This could be easily done with class logins more easily than individual ones – with the younger pupils it is a real barrier for them to get on a laptop, log in, find the blog etc…

Notes: This has been a frequent request. Unfortunately when this has been discussed with the data protection team in the Scottish Government they consider the use of 3rd party apps risky. As Glow Blogs use RM unify for authentication you cannot just enable 3rd part apps as these work with the standard WordPress authentication. We will certainly discuss the idea again and see if anything has changed or there is anything that can be done.

Class logins to glow are not regarded as secure.

]]>https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/portfolio/support-for-tablet-apps/feed/0Archive Old Postshttps://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/portfolio/archive-old-posts/
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/portfolio/archive-old-posts/#respondTue, 21 Nov 2017 17:13:48 +0000https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&p=2598Continue reading Archive Old Posts→]]>Idea: The ability to archive old posts including photos. I am not sure how this would work technically, or if it is even possible, but it is a question I have been asked a lot. Some schools need to delete posts/photos because their blog is reaching its storage capacity and just now there is no way to do this that I am aware of.

Benefits: This would allow blog users to free up some space on their blog without having to request to increase the space and also without losing old posts/photos.

Notes: Something around this is certainly under consideration.

The problem is that any limits set are due to cost, archived photos and other media would take up space and therefore contribute to the cost.

We do hope to make guidance around space a bit clearer and the proces simpler and will take this suggestion into account.

You can request more space via your Local authority who will pass it on to the help desk? At the moment you should get more space almost straight away until you get to 3GB. After that it is riun past the technical architect.

We could investigate building this into Glow Blogs but it may be trick due to data protection issues.

]]>https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/portfolio/automatically-tweet-posts-to-twitter-account/feed/0Increased size for Video Uploadhttps://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/portfolio/increased-size-for-video-upload/
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/portfolio/increased-size-for-video-upload/#respondThu, 09 Nov 2017 20:16:16 +0000https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&p=2578Description: I often video my pupils doing presentations e.g. dance and they are too big to upload. It would also be good to upload “how tos” for parents.

Benefits: Share the learning.
Let parents see the more creative activities we do.

]]>https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/portfolio/increased-size-for-video-upload/feed/0Filter sites on My Sites pagehttps://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/portfolio/filter-sites-on-my-sites-page/
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/portfolio/filter-sites-on-my-sites-page/#respondThu, 09 Nov 2017 20:05:45 +0000https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&p=2577Description: Would it be possible to have a search box on that page which would allow a teacher to narrow down the list of entries.

This plugin will let you add, remove, and arrange the buttons that are shown on the Visual Editor toolbar. You can configure up to four rows of buttons including Font Sizes, Font Family, text and background colours, tables, etc.

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]]>https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/portfolio/tinymce-advanced/feed/0TablePress Pluginhttps://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/portfolio/tablepress-plugin/
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/portfolio/tablepress-plugin/#respondTue, 07 Nov 2017 15:31:44 +0000https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&p=2560Continue reading TablePress Plugin→]]>Description: TablePress Plugin allows you to easily create and manage tables. You can embed the tables into posts, pages, or text widgets with a simple Shortcode. Table data can be edited in a speadsheet-like interface, so no coding is necessary.

Benifit: Could enhance display and presentation.

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]]>https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/portfolio/tablepress-plugin/feed/0Call to Action buttonhttps://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/portfolio/call-to-action-button/
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/portfolio/call-to-action-button/#respondMon, 06 Nov 2017 20:31:30 +0000https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&p=2556Continue reading Call to Action button→]]>Description, how should this idea work:: I would like to have a ‘call to action’ pluging added. There are various plugins that I believe can be supported by WordPress but are either not supported within Glow or you need to be able to edit the CSS to install.

Benefits of this idea. Why?: Would allow users to better encourage users to subscribe to their site, and be better able to manage subscriber lists. At the moment our site has the subscribe by email widget installed but it doesn’t provide information on how many people have subscribed or their e-mail addresses.